| George Walker - 1809 - 378 pages
...of each are constantly in proportion to the times elapsed, and that the cubes of the .1.. distances distances of the planets from the sun are as the squares of their periodical revolutions in their orbits, harmonise the motions of them all, and assign to each of them,... | |
| William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1815 - 598 pages
...equal times, and of course proportional to the times of describing them. He also discovered by trials, that the cubes of the mean distances of the planets from the sun, are in the same proportion as the squares of the periodical times in which they revolve about the sun.... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 624 pages
...possess the measure of our whole planetary system, as, according to the second • law of Kepler (qv), the cubes of the mean distances of the planets from the sun are as the squares of the periods of their revolutions (which have long been known). Therefore the determining of this distance... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1831 - 710 pages
...; they are so connected by Kepler's law of the squares of the periodic times being proportional to the cubes of the mean distances of the planets from the sun, that one cannot vary without affecting the other. With the exception of these two elements, it appears,... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...possess the measure cf our whole planetary system, as, according to the second law of Kepler (qv), the cubes of the mean distances of the planets from the sun are as the squares of the periods of their revolutions (which have long been known). Therefore the determining of this distance... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...changes; they are so connected by Kepler's law of the squares of the periodic times being proportional to the cubes of the mean distances of the planets from the sun, that one cannot vary without affecting the other. With the exception of these two elements, it appears... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 pages
...; they are so connected by Kepler's law of the squares of the periodic times being proportional to the cubes of the mean distances of the planets from the sun, that one cannot vary without affecting die other. With the exception of these two elements, it appeals... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 972 pages
...which Kepler might have apprized you that, the squares of the times of the planetary revolutions are as the cubes of the mean distances of the planets from the sun. But this was not all. It was not the tone for any mere physical truth. The enunciation was that of... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 620 pages
...possess the measure of our whole planetary system, as, according to the second law of Kepler (qv), the cubes of the mean distances of the planets from the sun are as the squares of the periods of their revolutions (which have long been known). Therefore the determining of this distance... | |
| John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1847 - 266 pages
...10585080. Ans. 135, 297, and 264. Kepler's Third Law. Newton demonstrated the law ascertained by Kepler, that the cubes of the mean distances of the planets from the Sun are as the squares of their times of revolution. Examp. If the Earth's mean distance from the Sun be 95071447 miles, and its sidereal... | |
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